ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,872, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter with embedded filtering" was invented by Debapriya Sahu (Bengaluru, India), Pranav Sinha (Bengaluru, India) and Meghna Agrawal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a switched capacitor circuit, a comparator, and a control circuit. The switched capacitor circuit has a switch control input and an output, and includes switches coupled to the switch control input and coupled to capacitors. The comparator has an input coupled to the output of the swi...